City Assessor Proposing A City-Wide Property Tax Reassessment

Jamestown Assessor Heather Young-Deyell presents on her Department’s 2027 Budget (November 9, 2026) Jamestown’s City Assessor is proposing a city-wide reassessment project that she says could potentially lower the tax rate. Assessor Heather Young-Deyell, during budget presentations to Jamestown City Council, said according to the New York State Office of Real Property Tax the City is only assessing property at 61% of market value at this time. The state recommends municipalities do a revaluation every 5 years. It has been 20 years since Jamestown last did one. Young-Deyell said the stigma around doing a reassessment is that people believe their taxes will go up, which she said is not true, “During a reassessment, we are simply redistributing a tax base that already exists. If a tax levy that you create remains relatively unchanged, but we increase the tax base, we would be able to shift the rate downward and collect less from each individual per $1000 of assessed value.

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